of the Democrats who gave Bush-Cheney the "okay" did so out of fear. That involves the concept that they went along to benefit their careers; yet it also goes a step farther. It means they were afraid that telling the Truth would harm their careers.
Fear is the worst enemy that any individual will encounter in life. That holds true, no matter what our particular status in this society. And I speak specific to our society, our current culture, because we are saturated with both "fear" and the false "safety" of "authority," from the time we enter school on. Fear of being different. Fear of being wrong. Fear of failure. Fear of being punished. And on and on.
Hence, as adults, we are highly conformist, fearful individuals. We pretend to be "free," because of fear of the consequences of recognizing the consequences of being honest with ourselves. Our "respect" for authority creates individuals who assume that people in DC are "leaders," rather than elected representatives. We might argue about one party versus the other, with the same passion that we argue baseball scores and who might win this season's "American Idle-Minded" competition, but it is almost always in the context of a willing consumer.
Our culture is cut of from the past in a most unhealthy way. How many DUers, for example, know that FBI Director Hoover attempted to prevent the public from being exposed to "The Death of a Salesman"? Much less why?
I again am rambling. An old man having his morning cup of coffee tends to, I suppose.
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